Re: Building a cross-compiling ocaml

From: Sven LUTHER (luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 08:02:21 MET

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    On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:20:48AM -0800, Francois Rouaix wrote:
    > > HAs anyone been so crazy as to try to build a palm pilot version of
    > > ocaml ?
    >
    > Of course not. However, I've worked on a port of Caml Light a long time ago
    > (you'll find that from my INRIA Web page). The fact that the device comes
    > with 8MB is misleading. This is not really memory you can allocate into (in
    > order to protect data from bogus programs, the Palm has memory protection on
    > most of its address space). Back in the time of the Pilot 5000, the actual
    > available memory was something like 64k. I had a small lambda-calculus
    > evaluator
    > running on my Pilot 5000 (isn't that useful ?).
    > Hopefully these days with 8MB devices, we should get more heap (128k?).
    >
    > Porting Caml Light is easier than OCaml because the runtime used to work for
    > platforms where ints are 16bits, which is the case in the Palm development
    > environment.

    ints are 16bits, ...

    i thought the 68000's where true 32 bit processors from the programming side.
    is it the same for ulinux ?

    Friendly,

    Sven LUTHER



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